One dad has posted an advert on Gumtree for a toddler hip seat. But it's not your usual ad at all. We get the feeling he's a little jaded with parenthood. Do you?

The ad is for the sale of a secondhand toddler hip seat (shown above) and here's the description:

"Hip seat for your little treasure (that's what you tell people but we all know the truth)

Seat that goes around your waist which gives your spawn of Satan a place to sit that is only mildly less painful than carrying the damn thing on your shoulders/in arms/strapped to your leg in a baby holster.

I wish there was more to it than that but there isn't. I wish it had magic laser guns on it that could kill anything at a 1000 yards fueled by the power of your mind crystal, or that it made you irresistibly attractive to every living woman and rich beyond your wildest dreams but it doesn't. It just confirms that your life is over and you have now reached a point in your life where you give all of your money away bit by bit before you wind up in a nursing home playing Mario kart solo before dying alone.

Buy it because you need biceps like Schwarzenegger and have puny appendages like Mr Bean.

Comes from a non smoking house because I've given up doing anything remotely interesting.

Collection only because having to package sh*t up is worse than stapling my testicles to an angry fox.

Will swap for Mario Kart*

*I'm kidding, I already have it."

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The advert reminds us of an Ebay listing for a secondhand buggy posted up by another dad a couple of years ago. Like this father, he, too, used the product description as an opportunity to share his feelings about fatherhood, writing:

"Here we have for sale the green monster that can only be Phil and Teds. I shall be glad to see it leave my premises and never return.

This was purchased against my wishes many years ago as I never wanted any children and a buggy signified my wife's intent to have children. We argued much and this buggy signifies everything that ended my happy carefree low cost child free life.

This buggy clearly meant she intended to have not just one but multiple children and the extortionate price of this buggy will stay imprinted on my brain till the day I die. I have bought cars that cost less than this buggy. My dad once bought a house that cost less than this buggy ..."

His rant continues for several more paragraphs. You can read the full listing here.

What do you think?

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